Tone Voice of the Speaker What is tone

Tone Voice of the Speaker

What is tone? The attitude of a writer towards a subject or an audience. • Tone is similar to tone of voice. • You can't hear the narrator, so you have to infer the tone from his or her words.

Tone is not Mood: how the reader is supposed to feel when reading the work. Mood Reader Narrator Tone

Example Tone Words Some examples of words that describe tone. • • • Anxious Appreciative Concerned Cynical Depressed Foreboding Grateful Grave Hopeful • • • Jealous Loving Melencholy Peaceful Pleasant Respectful Sensitive Timid Wise

Compare and Contrast… 1 Life's city ways are dark, Men mutter by, the wells Of the great waters moan. O death, O sea, O tide, The waters moan like bells. No light, no mark, The soul goes out alone On seas unknown. • • 2 The skies are sown with stars tonight, The sea is sown with light, The hollows of the heaving floor Gleam deep with light once more, The racing ebb-tide flashes past And seeks the vacant vast, A wind steals from a world asleep And walks the restless deep. These passages both talk abut the sea. One is very dark and dreary. Two is bright and happy. Tone makes a big difference in the mood.

Suggested Answer The speaker’s tone is: • Worried • Stressed • Afraid • Fearful Explanation Most of the sentences begin with “Whatif”. This poem conveys different ideas the narrator thinks could happen to him/her. Each of the examples provided are what we perceive as bad, or scary. For example: “Whatif I get sick and die? ” These are two things that we fear in life. The speakers tone could be perceived as fearful or afraid.

“They’re just so busy being respectable. It takes a lot of concentration to be that respectable. ” And then my mother laughed and laughed, in a gentle way, and you could tell her own spine was not made of steel because she bent in half, laughing and laughing. Mocking tone Playful tone

“Would you want a nurse whose name meant dead body? And that hair – don’t you think all that sticking-out red hair is spooky? And that voice – it reminds me of dead leaves blowing around on the ground. ” Serious tone Scared tone